The Labour leader’s Guardian article did nothing to solve the crisis over the party’s antisemitism definition
• Jeremy Corbyn: I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me
On Friday evening, Jeremy Corbyn tried to persuade Britain’s Jewish community, via the Guardian, that the Labour party is not a threat to their life in Britain. It is staggering that a Labour leader should feel compelled to make such a claim, and a mark of how low Corbyn’s standing has fallen that he is the last person most British Jews would trust to give them that assurance.
This is the result of more than two years of scandalous antisemitic behaviour within Labour, and of Corbyn’s failure to deal with it. There have been regular (and often unpunished) examples of antisemitism from Labour members. There was the failure to expel Ken Livingstone for his repeatedly offensive remarks. Shami Chakrabarti’s report on antisemitism in the party was widely perceived to be a whitewash. Party officials obstructed disciplinary cases. There have been antisemitic outbursts at national executive committee meetings and antisemitic slurs in Corbyn-supporting Facebook groups. Throughout it all, a passive party leader sat, watching and doing nothing.
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